Example sentences of "[noun] would be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morse looked at his watch : just after half-past six — and Downes would be meeting his wife at seven o'clock . |
| 2 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 3 | A £2,000,000 target had been set for the Battle of Britain Wings Appeal in the full knowledge that our sister charity , the RAF Benevolent Fund was launching its £20,000,000 ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal , and that the Association would be offering as much support as possible to that . |
| 4 | He seated himself in a chair and Emily paused for a moment , she could hardly ask the maid to bring the girl into the drawing-room where Spencer would be listening to every word . |
| 5 | He said the Irish side would be looking for progress on this issue . |
| 6 | Fourth September — news at Brigade H.Q that the Brigade would be returning to England on the 6th September to reorganise and prepare to be sent to the Far East and continue the war against the Japanese . |
| 7 | Labour would be acquiescing in a ‘ democratic outrage ’ if it continued arguing that , because the Conservatives had got away with being undemocratic for so long , it was now Labour 's turn . |
| 8 | Mummy would be crying if she was alone and as soon as Daddy 's key turned in the lock , it would be her fault . |
| 9 | Then she remembered : today David Markham would be taking up his new position as medical officer at OBEX . |
| 10 | If outrage were the sole test of legality in the arts , then the Impressionists would never have been allowed to organise the Salon des Refusés , Edvard Munch would have been driven into permanent exile , and the score of Stravinsky 's Rite of Spring would be gathering dust in some criminal museum like the Italian negative of Bertolucci 's Last Tango in Paris . |
| 11 | First of all nursery schools would be dealing with the County Council on a different basis from the vast of , of the schools population and that will give rise to anomalies and complications which would be undesirous and secondly there might be problems particularly if they are considering expanding nursery provision between nursery schools and nursery classes in primary schools . |
| 12 | It was assumed that schools would be using the materials and theme for about twelve periods a week for six weeks , as Miss Garnett noted : " This is probably as long as the steam stays in a theme for this age , and nobody should feel embarrassed about pulling out of it quicker if it seems right to do so " ( Leicester/Leicestershire Curriculum Development Project 1970 : I ) . |
| 13 | Soon Cathy Carne would be shutting shop to go to lunch . |
| 14 | We recognised through that review that to train all those people to do the work we would have to use the officers specialist inspectors and therefore those specialist inspectors would be carrying out less inspections during this year because they 'd actually be carrying out some training . |
| 15 | Yet if the crackdown on the Press which is being demanded goes ahead , journalists would be working with both hands tied behind their backs — as opposed to the one-hand handicap they are forced to suffer at the moment . |
| 16 | Veronica would be working on something to go with the brown shoes and the cardigan . |
| 17 | He had been waiting there since hearing from Bartocci , less than an hour earlier , that the kidnappers had been in touch and that the car would be leaving as soon as it got dark . |
| 18 | The car would be coming at eight . |
| 19 | The hire car would be running up a heavy bill , but apart from the advance that he 'd had to hand over Forester had no intention of paying it . |
| 20 | He told me he used to catch the train from Penn Station , New York , get off it at a station called Back Bay where a car would be waiting for him . |
| 21 | And now David would be thinking she wanted him to take her out again . |
| 22 | There was a stairway leading from our form room which had good acoustics and we 'd sit there on the steps , and I 'd be playing guitar and David would be singing . |
| 23 | He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . |
| 24 | Moreover , the United States would be withdrawing a force with stated missions in support of NATO ground forces while the Soviet fleet had only a derivative role in defending the Warsaw Pact . |
| 25 | Even the Oxford Museum was not free from Italian influence and ‘ Scott would be throwing away his best chance ’ if he let himself be debarred from doing the same . |
| 26 | They insist that because the warships would be protecting Japanese property , they would not be contravening clauses in the post-war constitution which forbid the use of armed forces outside territorial waters . |
| 27 | The tournament had attracted the media of Spain , Germany , and the United States , whilst in Japan and Australia golf addicts would be watching their TV sets in the middle of the night to see how Otaki and Coleman were doing . |
| 28 | If this did not take place , he argued , the result would be increasing levels of crime and suicide as pre-social or instinctive , biologically-based , behaviour increasingly reasserted itself . |
| 29 | The Jews would be waiting for him by now . |
| 30 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |